Match holder and striker.



NO; 781,019. PATENTED JAN. 31, 1905. E. A.. PARKER.

MATCH HOLDER AND STRIKE'R.

' APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 26. 1904.

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No. 781,019 I UNITED STATES Patented January 31, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

MATCH HOLDER AND STRIKER.

SFECIFICATIOFI forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,019, dated January 31, 1905.

Application filed August 26, 1904. Serial No. 222,263.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDMUND A. PARKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Meriden, county of N ew Haven, State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Match Holder and Striker, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object to produce a very cheap match holder and striker adapted for both safety and parlor matches which may be cast complete in a single piece from either high or low grade metal and will be easy to draw from the mold and easy to polish, there A add appreciably to the cost of equipment.

With these and other objects in view I have devised the simple and inexpensive match holder and striker which I will now describe, referrmgto theaccompanylngdraw1ngs,form- 1ng part of thls specification, and using reference characters to indicate the several parts.

Figure 1 is a front elevation showing my novel match holder and striker in place upon woodwork, a safetymatch-box cover being indicated by dotted lines; Fig. 2, a corresponding side elevation; and Fig. 3 is a central vertical section as on the line 3 3 in'Fig. 1, a Tafety-match-box cover being shown in full mes.

A denotes the match holder or receptacle, and B the striker, which are cast integral. The holder may be made more or less in skeleton form in order to reduce the amount of metal required and may be made of any desired ornamental shape or design. I have shown the back of the holder as made entirely open, with the exception of a cross-piece l0 l at the top, which is provided with holes to receive screws 11, by which it is attached in place, the woodwork to which the article is attached serving as a back for the holder proper-tl 0., the match-receptacle. In the center of the holder at the front I provide an opening 12 for convenience in removing matches.

In use, the matches, it being immaterial whether they are safety or parlor matches, are removed from the boxes in which they are shipped and laid in the holder,fromwhich they may be readily removed one at a time when they are required for use, the opening in the front, as already stated, facilitating their removal, but being too small to permit them to drop out. In addition to cross-piece 10 I prostrengthens the holder and also supports the striker B, which extends upward therefrom. This striker is cross hatched or roughened on its sides, as at 15, in order to provide strikingsurface for parlor-matches and is made of suitable shape and size to just serve as a form or support for covers of safety-match boxes, as is clearly shown in Fig. 3, in which the cover of a safety-match-box holder is shown in place on the striker, it being of course understood that the covers of safetymatch boxes are provided with specially-prepared striking-surfaces upon which to strike safetyrnatches. These prepared striking-surfaces of safety-match-box covers are always at the sides of such covers. Therefore since the striking-surfaces for parlor-matches are integral with the sides of the form or support a match is always to be struck in the same apparent location, whether it is of one kind or the other. In the use of the device no box- Y cover will be placed on the form or support when parlor-matches are placed in the receptacle A, and'therefore such a match will be struck on the integral side scratcher of the form or support; but when safety-matches are placed in the receptacle A the box-cover will be slipped on the form or support and its prepared sides will necessarily overlie the said integral striking-surfaces. Consequently a vide a cross top piece 13, which braces and person desiring to use a match in the dark I Having thus described my invention, 1

does not need to examine or consider the kind of match that he finds in the receptacle, but simply strikes it over the place to which he is accustomed.

I preferably make the front and top of the striker open, as shown, and curve the lower end of the back toward the front, as at 16 in Fig. 3, so that should the striker in connection with the cover of a safety-match box be used as a receptacle for burned matches the refuse of matches may be readily removed when the cover of the safety-match box is removed.

In using my novel match holder and striker for safety-matches the matches are removed from the box and placed in the holder, as are parlor-matches, and then the cover of the safety-match box is placed over the striker, as in Fig. 3, which serves as a form therefor and holds it securely in place.

claim-- A match holder and striker cast in a single piece and comprising a receptacle A having an open back and a front portion provided with a vertical opening 12, a vertical crosspiece 10 having screw-holes and a top piece 13 connecting the sides of the receptacle, and a striker B extending upward from the crosspiece 13 and comprising a back having a forwardly-curved lower portion and roughened vertical sides, the front of the striker B being open.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDMUND A. PARKER.

Witnesses:

WM. R. BANNIs rER, W. P. ZIEGLER. 

